Previous Print
Blawg Briefs
What’s So Great About Franchising? (Part One)
Notwithstanding the fact that there are problems to overcome, franchising can often be the best business approach. For the franchisor, it could mean putting a successful business at risk. It can require substantial capital investment and an even greater investment of time and human resources. New skills must be acquired and new duties and responsibilities assumed. The new system may lose money for years during the maturation stages. Absolute control over every aspect of the operations must be released, which can be unnerving, at best.
Full Article With Comments...

Tags

Business
Challenges
Expansion
Franchise
Profit
     

Authors

Edward (Ned) Levitt
Crossing Borders

Quick service and family casual restaurants have a broad appeal and are able to expand to multiple locations within a particular market and beyond.  An expansion will often take the restaurateur across a border, whether country, state or provincial.  The restaurateur will encounter some or all of: differing laws, costs for labour, construction and equipment, market demands, cultures and languages.  All of which can exist in an expansion across even a provincial border, i.e. the Ontario/Quebec border. 

Full Article With Comments...

Tags

Business
Challenges
Expansion
Failure
Foreign
Franchise
International
Success
     

Authors

Edward (Ned) Levitt
Search Entries
Go
Entries By Author
Go
Entries By Tag
Advantage Aeroplan Aeroplan Miles Age Air Canada Air Canada Foundation amicus briefs Bozzo Broadcasting Act Broader Public Sector Budget Budget 2013 Business Buy America Buying a Franchise Canada Canada Revenue Agency Canada Tax System Canada-Netherlands Tax Treaty Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation Canadian broadcasting Canadian copyright law Canadian Government Canadian law Canadian Pacific Railway Canadian Trade-marks Journal CDS Clearing and Depository Services Cerner Corp. Challenges CIPO CIRA Class Action cleantech clear and convincing evidence Commercial Activity Consent Consolidated Debenture Stock constitutional challenge consumer products contract errors contracts Copyright Copyright Act Copyright damages copyright extension acts Copyright infringement Copyright Modernization Act copyright policy copyright reform corporate governance Corporate Measures CRA Cross Border Outsourcing CRTC custom XML Densification digital downloads digital media levy Digital Millennium Copyright Act digital music Divisional Court Doing Business in Canada Domain Name domain name registry Domain names domain registry scam Donation Download dube East Texas District Economy eHealth eHealth Ontario electronic health records electronic medical records email scam empty voting Enforceability of terms of use Environment Eric Schmidt ERT evidence ex parte Excise Tax Act Expansion expired patents Facebook Failure Fair dealing fair use/fair dealing Federal Budget Federal Court of Appeal fee-for-carriage Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act file sharing FISA FIT Foreign foreign investment Foreign ownership Franchise Franchisor free trade FSB G20 summit G8 and G20 GameStation Gift GlaxoSmithKline Gmail goals Gold Payment Clause Google Google Buzz Google Buzz privacy Google executives Google Italy Google privacy Google privacy appeal Google Street View privacy governance issues government government policy green economy Green Energy GST Hanna House of Commons HST i4i ICANN IDN Improving Business Income Tax Act Income Taxt Act Industry Canada consultation Infrastructures for Information innovation intellectual property International Internationalized domain names Internet Internet competition Internet copyright issues internet domain name scam intrusion on seclusion invalidate patent inventiveness investing ISP Italy privacy law prosecution Jennifer Stoddart Jim Flaherty Jones v. Tsige judgment against Microsoft June Budget Justice Charles Hackland Law Law Times Lawson v. Accusearch Licensing LimeWire litigation local government M&A Magder v. Ford Manitoba’s Court of Queen’s Bench manufacturing Mason Capital Management LLC McNamee metadata Microsoft patent infringement Microsoft Word Multi-national Municipal Conflict of Interest Act municipal projects music industry music licensing Napster Nature of Transaction notice and takedown nuisance Office of the Privacy Commissioner Online Online Activity online contracts Ontario Ontario Court of Appeal Ontario Divisional Court Ontario Family Law Act OPA OPC outsourcing Owner Parliament patent system patents Personal Health Information personal information personal injury Personal Measures personally identifiable information PHIPA PIPEDA Planning Policy Politics Power preponderance of the evidence privacy Privacy Commission Privacy Compliance Privacy Policy privacy protection privacy rights private copying private equity procurement productivity Profit Proper Execution proxy battle public infrastructure Real Estate Real Property Association of Canada Reference re Broadcasting Act renewable energy Renewable Energy Approvals renewable power requisition RIAA Rob Ford selling your soul share consolidation shareholder activism shareholder democracy Shares Sick Kids social networking software patent Sound Sound Marks sparks St. Michael Trust Corp St. Michael Trust Corp. State Farm steganography Strengths Success Successful Franchise Systems Supply Chain Guideline Supreme Court Act Supreme Court of Canada Sydney, Australia Tax Tax Court of Canada Tax Credit Tax News Flash Taxpayer Technological Protection Measures technology Telecommunications TELUS Corporation The Financial Stability Board The Hospital for Sick Kids The Queen the U.S. dollar Toronto tort TPM Trademark Trade-marks Act Tranmer, J. transit transmission project Trusts Typosquatting United States UrbanGrowth NSW Annual Conference Usage Velcro Canada Inc. venture capital Weakness Webcrawling Website writ of certiorari XML YouTube
Entries By Date
User Settings
Login to select personalized notfications for this blog


Username
Password
Login
Register | Forgot your password?